jiōng

wilds

Evolution

坰 Bronze script Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)

Bronze script

Late Shang dynasty (~1100 BC)
坰 Bronze script Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)

Bronze script

Mid Western Zhou (~900 BC)
坰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
坰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
Definitions

 

jiōng

wilds; environs; wilderness

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*kʷˤeŋ

kweng

jiōng

region distant from capital


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

Miscellaneous

Strokes

8

Unicode

U+5770

Shuowen

“冂,邑外謂之郊,郊外謂之野,野外謂之林,林外謂之冂,象遠界也。冋,古文冂。从囗,象國邑。坰,冋或从土。”


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